Chandigarh, January 4: Deriding the Prime Minister as a “master of deceit and disinformation”, Punjab Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh on Friday challenged Narendra Modi to give even one instance of a promise kept by his government in the past five years.
Taking Modi on over his statements in Gurdaspur on Thursday, Amarinder alleged that the ‘jumlebaaz’ Prime Minister had brought the nation to its nadir with his “deceptions and fabrications”, and was staring at his moment of judgment at the hands of the people, who were set to throw him out of power for good.
Disputing every single statement made by Modi in Gurdaspur, the Chief Minister said the Prime Minister had stooped to abominable levels in a bid to mislead the people.
Modi had lied on every issue, from the 1984 riots and Kartarpur corridor to the farm debt waiver, declared Amarinder, adding that the Prime Minister was talking nonsense to hide the failure of his own government in the past five years.
The Chief Minister minced no words in taking on Modi over the 1984 riots issue, questioning the latter’s silence on the BJP/RSS workers named in the Tilak Marg Police Station FIR related to the worst violence perpetrated against the Sikhs, while trying desperately to drag the Gandhi family into the matter even though no fingers had been pointed at them.
“And what about the 1992 riots in Gujarat which happened right under your nose and in which your own party members were squarely blamed and named,” Amarinder asked of Modi, demanding to know why the Prime Minister continued to remain silent on the issue.
Amarinder also lambasted the Prime Minister for “trying to seize credit” for the Kartarpur corridor, which the Congress had been actively pursuing for years. He himself had been taking up the issue with Pakistan for years, said the Chief Minister, asking Modi to reveal what he had done to get the project going.
“You have not given even a single paisa so far for the celebration of the 550th Parkash Purab of Guru Nanak despite our repeated pleas and requests, and yet claim to be the guardians of the Sikhs and their religion,” asserted the Chief Minister, pinning Modi down on the issue.
The Congress government in Punjab had kept more promises in 21 months than the Modi government at the Centre had done in five years, Amarinder asserted.
